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Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js) Reviews

PDF Viewer (aka pdf.js) is a new revolutionary extension using web standard technologies that...

Social recommendations and mentions

We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on Reddit and HackerNews. They can help you see what people think about Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js) and what they use it for.
  • Help with feasability of an idea!
    Yes, this is doable. You can do something like this with PDF.js. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago
  • I made a free PDF editor that works in your browser
    Sure! You can build your own PDF editor with a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago
  • I made a free PDF editor that works in your browser
    I stand on the shoulders of giants, namely a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago
  • how to make image from pdf file in assets??
    Because it looks like that you're looking only for a solution that works on the web, you might be able to use pdf.js. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago
  • PDF reader you say?
    I primarily use PDF.js, the pdf reader embedded into amongst other things Firefox. It was developed by Mozilla for Firefox though. The mayor benefit is that you get Javascript processes isolation and security which is always nice. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago
  • is there a browser that let's you view pdfs online without downloading them?
    Are you thinking of something like PDF.js Https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/. - Source: Reddit / 6 months ago
  • PDF Reader
    Something you probably already have built into your web browser? PDF.js. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago
  • Online web questionnaire to PDF
    I've done a fair bit of this sort of work, my preference is a web form that is laid out similarly to the PDF ( not essential though ) that generates the PDF on the client or server-side. HTML2PDF is a server-side PHP library I've used a lot, try PDF.js if you want to do it in the web browser. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago
  • I built a wrapper to easily embed my PDF editor (SimplePDF) in any React app!
    I stand on the shoulders of giants, namely PDF-lib, PDF-js and React-beautiful-DND – everything else is pretty much custom code. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago
  • [REQUEST] Replacing Brave's Chromium-based PDF viewer w/ PDF.js from Mozilla
    Here is the GitHub link to Mozilla's PDF viewer and here is the link to the online demo of the PDF viewer. - Source: Reddit / 12 months ago
  • Spent the last few weeks working on new features for Resumary (a new resume builder that's designed to get you more interviews) and wanted to share them with you
    Not op, but pdf.js is one of the most widely used. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago
  • JavaScript, like HTML, is not a programming language.
    Only because it is displayed as HTML5, does not mean the viewer or the the thing creating said document can't be written in JS. Https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • How to annotate PDFs in the browser
    I don't know how to use PDF.js for this task. I would rather not use PDF.js because it is huge (file size). - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • Is there any library to fill values in a PDF form?
    Jokes aside, I think you can us Annotation Layer in pdfjs from mozilla. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • Privacy & security aspects of PDF.js
    I had thoughts of using Mozilla's PDF.js (https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/) in one of my project. I want to make my project privacy focused. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • PDF viewer integration examples
    You must see this: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago
  • best PDF viewer fir vuejs
    Alternatively use https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ for more control. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago
  • Firefox 88.0
    Mozilla's PDF viewer is written in JS – it's literally called PDF.js: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/. This new feature means you can run JS embedded in PDF… in PDF.js. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
  • When I download pdf files from my university site, they get prepended with a quote
    Firefox uses PDF.js while Chrome uses something else, one way they differ is how they determine what to name a PDF when downloaded. - Source: Reddit / about 2 years ago

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